Wienerberger Brick Award 2020: Call for Entries

Brick Award 2020 - Wienerberger Brick Award - Facing Bricks

To celebrate outstanding brick and ceramic building projects from
around the world, the world’s largest brick manufacturer Wienerberger is
inviting architects, architecture critics and journalists alike to enter
projects into the Wienerberger Brick Award 2020. Entries are open from 7th
January 2019 until 9th April 2019.

Initiated in 2004, the Wienerberger Brick Award is a biennial
international architectural award presented to remarkable examples of
modern and innovative brick architecture. In 2020, Wienerberger will
host this internationally recognised awards event for the ninth time
with a prestigious ceremony in Vienna.

For these highly prized awards, Wienerberger is looking for
impressive projects featuring ceramic building materials, whether that
is facing bricks, clay blocks, clay roof tiles, clay façade panels or
clay pavers. The use of Wienerberger products is not a necessary
condition of participation. Submitted projects can be newly constructed,
refurbished and converted buildings, can include new or reused
materials, and must have been completed in 2016 or later.

Participants are asked to fill out an online form comprising of basic
project data, a short informative description of the project and
building plans, as well as uploading photos.

After the submission period ends on the 9th April 2019, a panel of
architecture journalists and critics will narrow down the number of
entries to 50 nominated projects for the Wienerberger Brick Award 2020.
These nominations will be published in the highly sought-after Brick20
book.

The Wienerberger Brick Award 2020 comprises of five categories:

Feeling at home: single-family houses, semi-detached houses and small
housing projects of high architectural quality that provide comfortable,
healthy & sustainable living spaces.

Living together: multi-family houses: innovative residential solutions
taking into account the trends and challenges of urbanisation such as
scarcity of space, social challenges and new living concepts.

Sharing public spaces: comfortable, aesthetic and functional public
buildings for education, culture, healthcare, public places and
infrastructure projects.

Building outside the box: innovative concepts and ways of using brick,
use of new construction technologies, special brickworks, custom-made
bricks and new ornamentation.

An international jury of architects will select each category winner
as well as the Grand Prize winner in time for the Spring 2020 awards
ceremony. The Grand Prize winner receives a prize fund of 7,000 Euros,
with each category winner receiving 5,000 Euros.

The Wienerberger Brick Award team received nearly 600 fascinating
project submissions from 44 countries for the 2018 awards.

“The projects in the Brick Award show the very versatile ways brick
is used as a contemporary form of construction and that brick
architecture is widespread everywhere in the world”, states Jonathan
Sergison (Sergison Bates architects) jury member of the Wienerberger
Brick Award 2018.

To take a look at past Wienerberger Brick Award winning projects and
to submit an entry for the 2020 awards, visit www.brickaward.com. The
closing date for project submissions is 9th April 2019.

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